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Posted on 2022-01-15

Hit Bicycle

I got hit by a car the other day, Wednesday, while taking my usual lunch time ride around the neighbourhood. I've been in several other incidents over the last few years, whether on foot, bicycle, or in another vehicle. Most of them off the top of my head somehow involve trains tracks or waiting at a crossing train. For example, a few years ago, as a passenger in an automobile, I got rear-ended waiting at a railroad crossing by an intoxicated person. One of the worst, though, without any automobiles, happened not too long before that when I crossed a track and got my back tyre stuck, which tipped me over. I scraped my hand and tore open the glove.

This isn't the first time I've been hit by a car while riding my bike. It happened once on the way home from work a few years ago, not too long before when I got rear-ended, and only 3 or 4 blocks from where I got hit the other day. But that time, the car stopped and it was a light collision. I didn't even hurt myself and the person apologized. I knew they were more embarrased than I was scared.

The one that could have been the worst happened right after I moved to Portland. I was on the way to a job interview when someone drove up onto the sidewalk. I saw them coming so I was able to roll/bounce myself off the hood of their car. If I hadn't seen them, they would have knocked me down, probably driving over me.

This isn't nearly an exhaustive list of traffic incidents. I don't want to keep track of it. I mostly just want to say that lots has happened, and what happened on Wednesday was so much worse that I wasn't prepared for it mentally or physically.

Over the last few days I've felt pretty terrible. People keep trying to relate with bad allegories. I know they mean well. Folks who although close to me, might have missed parts of my life over the years and so they don't realize what else has happened.

It reminds me of this pandemic, a bit. Lots of folks are around in proximity, but not in person. We text each other, but they haven't been part of my life.

Where did all that come from...? Anyway, I know everyone means well and it isn't any single person or group.

State of the projects

To follow-up from last time, last weekend, I started working on a character generator for Fenris Punk. I renamed it to pyfenrispunk, but I have not published the repo yet. I'll make that announcement in a blog post from the main website after I finish the main features. And then I'll probably retire the fenrispunk~tools~ repo. I'll migrate the map generator, but I do not plan to continue working on the pygame portion. For that, I will either use Godot or PlanarAlly whenever I finally get to that. Anyway, I might try out Brython to put the character generator into a web form.

I continue to make minor improvements to my public dotfiles, especially for emacs. The transition from 26 to 27 was a bit smoother than 25 to 26. I've read a lot about what others do for their own configs, and honestly I think most of it is overengineered or just bad code. I don't mean any disrespect. Anyway, I still have some obvious things to fix, such as C-M combinations in tty mode.

I still want to implement something in lisp. I've been thinking about using Hy for a while.

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